Cafe's Casimir, Top Seller of the 2017 Oldenburg Autumn Elite Auction

The show jumping bred but dressage trained Cafe’s Casimir (by Cafe au lait x Calido x Grannus) became the top selling horse at the 2017 Oldenburg Autumn Elite Auction at the Oldenburg Horse Center in Vechta, Germany, on 30 September 2017.

Riding sport centre Spessart in Linsengericht, Germany, acquired the bay gelding for Belgian born German based Grand Prix rider Carl Cuypyer to ride. The Muller family of Spessart paid 125,000 euro for Cafe's Casimir. Cuypers has found a new sponsor in Müller after his collaboration with the Nolte family of Hofgut Rosenau was ended in May.

The second most expensive horse was Graciella (by Sir Donnerhall I - Welt Hit II - Grundstein), which sold for 110,000 euro to German Sarah Stanuschewski, who is based in Florida, U.S.A.. Marta Kauffman, producer of the hit tv-series Friends, and her rider Jaye Cherry purchased Victoria's Secret (by Van Vivaldi x Don Gregory) for 80,000 euro.

The best selling show jumpere was Blue Eye (by Balou de Rouet x Quite Easy), which sold to Germans for 85,000 euro. The second most expensive show jumper was Centarew (by Centadel x Narew xx) which stays in the country for 70,000 Euro.

The most expensive foal in the collection was Vitus Weltino (by Vitalis x Welt Hit II x Noble Roi xx) who is out of the dam of the Grand Prix stallion Dante Weltino. He sold for 60,000 euro to a German client.

Americans were on a shopping spree and acquired Elfenromance (by For Romance x Rohdiamant) for 18,000 euro.

Almost half of the riding horses were sold to foreign countries. High quality horses will be off to the USA (7), Sweden (4), Ecuador (1), France (1), Columbia (1), Netherlands (1), Russia (1), Switzerland (1) and Spain (1).

19 of the talented foals of the foal collection will be leaving Germany for the USA (11), Netherlands (2), Switzerland (2), France (1), Austria (1), Serbia (1) and the Czech Republic (1).

The average price of the riding horses at this auction was 39,405 euro, the average price for a foal was 13,885 euro.